Polyphemus moths overwinter in their silken cocoons ... on a host plant. The caterpillars feed on a wide variety of deciduous trees, for example, oaks, maples, willow and birch, all of which ...

Fortuitously a reader in Pennsylvania read this column and wrote to me after rescuing a beleaguered Polyphemus moth from a parking lot. She, Carol Guenther, jewelry designer and now caterpillar ...

Since the early 2000s, spongy moth caterpillars, an import from Europe, have flexed their gustatory muscle in Wisconsin by stripping entire stands of trees of their leaves during late spring and ...

About an inch smaller, and lacking the cecropia's conspicuous knobs, is the caterpillar of the polyphemus moth, our second largest Lepidoptera. This one is fluorescent green with six oblique ...

The scientists then fed these high-toxin leaves to caterpillars of the polyphemus moth, the second-largest moth species in North America. Fewer than 18 percent of the native moth caterpillars ...

The fantastic green ribbed caterpillar with a tan face, fine hairs and yellow, orange and pink raised dots was the larva of a polyphemus moth — a large silk moth, similar in its larval stage to ...

Polyphemus moths are named after the mythological ... to find as many females as they can and procreate. Polyphemus caterpillars are no slouch, either. Once they hatch, Polyphemus caterpillars ...

The Polyphemus moth is a large, beautiful moth belonging to the giant silkworm family. It is seen in the Skiatook area from mid-April through August. The caterpillars are present in the fall and ...

What’s more, it’s the tiny caterpillars that do the munching, not the adult moths. Good news – polyphemus caterpillars do not eat clothing, preferring the foliage of birch, elm, oak and ...

Joan Grippo photographed a Polyphemus moth caterpillar at the Norfolk Botanical Garden in Norfolk. “It is truly a translucent neon green color,” wrote Grippo. “Definitely blends in with the ...